ACT. 11 THE ATTACK

"Until when you're going to stay here?" Hiro heard a voice came from behind him and turn his back. His smile when he saw her standing there in her miko outfit. He never thought someone could be this beautiful.

"Am I being forbid to come?" He didn't move from where he was.

"I can consider it…" Rei glared at him.

But he laughs at her. "You know that will not stop me for come here and see you, right?" She blushes for a moment.

"Whatever." She turns away…calling Phobos and Demos and feeding them.

"Hino-san, can I ask you something?" She didn't response but it didn't stop him anyway so he continue, "Why are you hating me now?" Rei look at him for a moment and then return to what she is doing. "Are you still didn't believe me? Because what I've done back in the Dark Kingdom? Because if you do, I can clearly tell you that…"

"I'm not hating you." He heard her voice…sounds like she trying to hold her tears. She clearing her throat once before looking at him directly in his eyes. That's was the first time she ever does it, "I'm not hating you." She convinces him, "It's just…we couldn't go back to what we had back then."

"Why not?"

"Because…it's because now I didn't see you like I used to before."

"You don't?"

"I don't." She clearing her answer. Hiro just stand there didn't react or objected it. Rei sighs, it looks like Hiro accepts it, "So…we still could be a friend."

"I don't want to be a friend…" He finally spoke up, "And I know you too."

"What are you talking about? I said it before that I…"

"I heard you." Hiro cut her words, "And I also heard the lies you've been trying to hide." Rei's heart skipped a bit. Is she really that bad at hiding something?

"Azai-kun…I'm not lying." She knew she say that mostly to herself.

"Hino-san…let's not pretend to each other." Hiro walks closely, "We both know that this feeling…even though, you would say this as memories…just exist because we remembering our past. I felt it now. Right now. I don't care about my past feelings. I care what I had now. And this feeling…this feeling is real. You just afraid to admit it."

He will always be like that. A "today's" man…he never look back…or worrying about the future…he live in now. Maybe that's why she will always be attracted to him, because he's so different, a total opposite of her. With him she can enjoy the day…cherishing every single thing and never regret. She wants to be more like him…she want to be with him…

Before she could say something, there is a loud thunder filling the air. They suddenly look above their head. The sky was dark…so dark…and the air becomes colder. Rei stands there with defensive gesture while Hiro getting more aware with his surrounding. They realize their surrounding had been too quite, no wind, no sounds. It's looking like the time has stop. And when they saw how Phobos and Demos stopped in the air they knew the time really has stop. Then suddenly out of nowhere there is this man standing in front them. He is tall, almost 2 meters and has a slim body. His white hair tied up into a long ponytail. But the most terrifying is the fact that he didn't have eyes…it just an empty space where the eyeballs should exist.

"Who are you?" He heard Rei yelling at the intruder. She already grabs her transformation pen, ready to used it in any moment.

"I came to collect them…the keys." His voice is sounds like a dry branch against the wall. So annoying…

"Keys?" Hiro repeated the man's words. He look at Rei, but that girl is as confused as he is. They didn't know what this man had been talking about.

"What keys? I don't understand what you were…" Rei couldn't finish her words. The man disappear from where he was, "What?"

Rei look at Hiro, her eyes wide open. Hiro following her gaze and suddenly realize that the tall guy now standing right behind him. In one of his hands there is this long blade…or maybe a clockwise…as big as he was, with a sharp edge pointing at Hiro's neck. "You will be first…East." The scary voice came out again. He's about to slice Hiro's throat when a sudden fire attack blows him few steps behind. Rei already transformed herself into her Senshi form.

The man look pissed, he turn to Mars and launch his attack, a miniature of a black hole forming in his palm and he throw it at her. She could escape from it just by an inch, the black hole hit a tree and explode it. Mars look at the man with more anticipated look. She gives him some of her serious attacks, but it seems goes for nothing. He had prepared now.

"Maybe I just have to rip you first." He forms another black hole in his hand. It's bigger than the previous one. Hiro look at Mars in concern face, she look exhausted. Fighting by herself does drain her power more than she used to. The black hole being launch and Hiro realize that Mars moving seconds too late. She will never avoid the attack. Hiro didn't know how but he run toward her, rushing to protect her…she knew it and doing the same thing. Her hand reach out…trying to stop him…they were both in the attack line. Just a second after that the big blast of darkness and light filling the shrine...

Today I post earlier...cause it's weekend here and I'm going home to my hometown.

I've finished some battle scenes and starting the climax of this story. It's really made my brain gasping for air.

But write this story surely an amazing experience for me. Thanks a lot for the reviews, keep doing that for my future chapters. Happy Weekends...